A Fine, bad, thing....

      I've encountered so much confusion regarding fine and applied art. A friend of mine suggested i re-read the college class Heidegger discourse "Origin of the Work of Art"  after we happened upon Van Gogh's  "Shoes" at the MET.

The myriad questions re-reading this treatise promulgated started my intellectual curiosity a-brewin'........

here are some of the art pieces I began to examine, both cognitively and affectively.  Can fine art be bad? Can applied art be good? What is art? Does it matter that a Koons 'Balloon Dog' fetches 20 million (give or take) at auction when there are homeless, hungry, and jobless people out there??